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Re: LIGO

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Steven Carlip wrote:

> On 6/18/16 2:06 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Steven Carlip wrote:
>>> […]  More details are in arxiv.org/abs/1606.04856.
>> 
>> First of all, when you refer to resources, you should post URIs; not 
>> only is that unambiguous, it is also more convenient for many readers 
>> since their software would create hyperlinks.  Additionally, in this 
>> case you should not refer to the version on the preprint server, 
>> arXiv.org, but to the official version since (AFAIK) all the LSC and 
>> VC’s papers can be read online for free.
> 
> In this field, the standard practice is to refer to the arXiv version. 
> You can get to the "official version" easily enough from the arXiv site,
> but the arXiv has added advantages: it will often have the most recent
> version (for this paper, v2 is up now), and it has links to, for
> instance, the Inspire and NASA ADS listings of citations.  If you look at
> the "official version" you cite, you'll notice that the references almost
> all have hyperlinks to the arXiv.  You are, of course, welcome to use any
> method you like to cite papers; I'll go with the practice of the people
> (like me) who actually work in the field.

Thank you for the update; that makes sense.  But it would still be better if
you posted URIs.

>> “[…] It also identified a third possible signal, LVT151012, with 
>> substantially lower significance, which has a 87% probability of being
>> of astrophysical origin. […]”
> 
>> That is a _13_ % chance of being noise, is it not?
> 
> There are a number of different ways of getting the estimate.  The 
> abstract used the most conservative, which is perhaps fair enough. But if
> you look at section IIIC, you'll see that the two matched template
> analyses gave sigmas of 1.7 and 2.0.

ACK, thanks.

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  Re: LIGO moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-06-16 13:18 +0000
    Re: LIGO Steven Carlip <carlip@physics.ucdavis.edu> - 2016-06-18 10:13 +0200
      Re: LIGO Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-18 11:06 +0200
        Re: LIGO Steven Carlip <carlip@physics.ucdavis.edu> - 2016-06-21 23:20 -0700
          Re: LIGO Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-25 00:09 +0200
  Re: LIGO moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-06-18 15:36 +0000
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        Re: LIGO "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 22:07 -0700
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